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TDK MD | MD-XG "SP" Series (1999)
These TDK Japan discs are from 1999 and were available in 60 and 74 minute variants. The shell is the familiar TDK diagonal hatching design and the discs inside are tinted gold.
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On 8/9/2024 at 8:37 PM, BearBoy said:
Thanks @Richard 🙂
They're nice enough looking discs but was just wondering if the styling would be along the same lines as the packaging.
Fairly minimal overall, but the font on the disc and the logo with the removed corner echoes that on the packaging.
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On 8/6/2024 at 8:55 PM, BearBoy said:
That's what I was Googling for: to see what the discs themselves looked like. Do you have any pictures of opened ones?
Courtesy of @JayTilston
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17 hours ago, BearBoy said:
Packaging looks sort of "retro", which I am not sure was so much of a thing back in the heyday of MiniDisc.
Were these quite rare @Richard? Googling them is bringing back nothing (except your post).
The colors are a bit 1970's 😅 It was another bargain range of products to be sold in supermarkets, but being made by Saehan the discs are good quality and quite similar to their Natural Wave range. They do seem to be quite rare, they don't come up for sale very often - it took me about 4 years between finding the 80 minute discs and picking up the 74s recently. Even opened packs don't appear very often from what I can tell...
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* Added 74 minute variant
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On 7/16/2024 at 9:45 PM, BearBoy said:
As a somewhat irrelevant aside, the MZ-EH930 looks really similar to the MZ-E630. Looks metal though, as opposed to the plastic case on the MZ-E630?
I have no idea about the actual problem - seems quite strange. But as an equally irrelevant answer to the aside from @BearBoy, the front of the 630 is painted metal. You can see if you look at the underside when you open it
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Prices on discs are way too high, but he has some useful accessories.
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23 hours ago, BearBoy said:
Was about to ask whether it was an MZ-E909 or MZ-R909 but just noticed you said "recorder" and @Richard has changed the title to reflect that it's an R909?
I renamed it purely on a hunch, but also becuase I'm a bit OCD about spelling and capitalisation of topic titles 😆
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* Added open disc picture
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Wow that's awesome! It's always great to receive a box full of fresh unopened discs
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4 hours ago, BearBoy said:
The tinted case looks really nice. I don't think I've got any discs with (coloured, rather than just grey) tinted cases. Seems like such an obvious thing to do with all the coloured discs that were released though.
Are coloured cases like that fairly common on Japanese releases @Richard?
They were a feature of many Axia discs but other than that I think only Maxell had some tinted cases and they were all tinted dark grey as opposed to color matched with the discs. That kind of detail is one of the things I really like about Axia discs
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58 minutes ago, Christopher said:
Brilliant post, Richard! Thank you so much for sharing. ☺️
Thanks Chris - really nice to see you around the place again 😁
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Axia MD | MD PS (Player's Spirits) - 1st Version (1997)
This series released in 1997 is one of my favourite Axia discs. I love the slightly more subtle paler shade of blue on the disc itself and on the tinted cases. As usual the attention to detail is very high - apart from the one typo on the index card - see if you can spot it. The discs were available in both 60 minute and 74 minute versions.
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I never quite understood why pre-recorded MD's rocketed in price either. I have a few, but they were all picked up for next to nothing on eBay, sometime in the mid to late 2000's when no-one was interested in them any more. I also always thought it was just easier to buy the CD and make your own MD copy.
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7 hours ago, BearBoy said:
At least I can rest easy knowing my stockpile is only a tiny fraction of what @Richard must have 😉
I'm not really sure how many I have - I'll have to try and do a full count at some point..
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3 hours ago, kgallen said:
Oh my gawd. @Richard you must have the ultimate minidisc museum!
We should open a museum one day!
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1 hour ago, BearBoy said:
The disc itself is maybe a little dull (reminds me of some old floppy discs I used to have 🙂) but I really like the packaging. Similar to the current day MDW80Ts but it looks smarter, to me, with the dark grey/black.
Also, that disc is over 30 years old 😯
Exactly - this like a few of the early discs falls into the "definitely looks better wrapped" category, along with the Scotch, early Sharps etc..
Wow - 30 years old!! I didn't even think of that
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* Pictorial updated with white disc overview
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* Pictorial updated with 80 minute 10 pack
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Victor MD | Victor XM-C31 (W)
The Victor XM-C31 was released in October 2004 and came in several colour schemes - pink, blue and this which was nominally called white, although a large proportion of the unit is black. The front panel features a unique square design pattern.
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Sony MD | MDW-74 (1993)
The Sony MDW-74, released on 10th April 1993 in Japan was Sony's first 74 minute disc. There are some early variations that feature the inverted design also seen on the early MDW-60's. There is also a later version with a slightly smaller embossed arrow in the top left hand corner.
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2 minutes ago, BearBoy said:
I've got some very similar to those in your last post, @Richard. Except they're 80 minute ones and have a different shutter logo (no "HO" branding). When I first saw your pictures of the Flower Mix ones I initially thought they were the same but in different packaging. The colour patterns on the discs are quite distinct though.
Nice score!
Those must be the European versions - they are indeed the same as the Ho (which was Japan only) apart from the shutter design. All great looking discs! I'll try and do a full pictorial on the Ho's separately.
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Reporting for duty 🙋♂️ (there doesn't seem to be a salute emoji on the forum software.. oh well)
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Just now, kgallen said:
Ah, I'm sure I have some discs similar to the green one at least (I think the slider is different). However since I don't have this limited edition set, mine must be inferior somehow! I will check...
They could well be the TDK Ho series from 2003 which were also released in Europe a few years later with the same disc design, but a different shutter logo and were just called TDK Colour Series or something equally non-descript.
Are they perhaps similar to these ones?
TDK MD | MD-XG "SP" Series (1999)
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* Added photo of disc and inserts